Live Poetry Event with Anthony Cappo, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday December 28 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctceCppz8iE9HhItlupBaoL-TCdkVXAuhL

Anthony Cappo, author of When You’re Deep In A Thing and My Bedside Radio, poems and other writings have appeared in THRUSH, Prelude, Entropy, The Rumpus, and other publications. “Cappo’s voice is intimate, but the arc is visceral: ‘come with me and I will show you/fissures of men.’ His poems aren’t looking for alchemy, only for what’s real, this world in which a child might ‘endure/like an Arctic explorer.’ They are true, meaning: wholehearted and ambivalent. Cappo won’t show you prefabricated emotions, rather the contraries we wrestle as we try to conjure our destinies ‘under God’s random jackhammer.’ He charts an America of absent fathers and thrift shop hand grenades, an era in which the line between common sense and paranoia is fading. When You’re Deep in a Thing isn’t just beautiful-it’s courageous and necessary.” – D. Nurkse 

Maria James-Thiaw, author of Count Each Breath, is an award-winning poet, performer, and playwright. She is the author of four poetry collections and her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and Essential Voices: A Covid19 Anthology. Poems from her play, Reclaiming My Time: An American Griot Project won the Art of Protest Award from Penn State University’s Center for American Literary Studies in 2018. Maria James-Thiaw is the founder of Reclaim Artist Collective, an organization that brings her American Griot Project programming to marginalized communities. 

Ann E. Michael, author of Strange Ladies, Water-Rites, More than Shelter, The Minor Fauna, Small Things Rise & Go, and The Capable Heart, poems and essays have been widely published in many journals, including Poem, Natural Bridge, Ninth Letter, Runes, The Comstock Review, Diner, Sentence, Slant, ISLE, The Writer’s Chronicle, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts and others, as well as in numerous literary anthologies. She maintains a long-running blog, garden, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com